The (Not So Secret) Secrets Behind Magic Tricks

Just a Post and a Seat

This trick follows the Floating Woman and the Spike Through the Body guidelines, but it is much less theatrical. The magician will sit on a seat suspended from a pole that’s connected to a base. The magicians that perform this trick typically hold onto the post like a cane and make it look like they are floating completely effortlessly.

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The More You Know

  • A Scarlet Macaw can live up to 80 years.
  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • The word "kimono" means "a thing to wear."
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
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